Windows Server Contracts in the Midlands

Microsoft Windows Server
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Windows Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows Server over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 58 49 54
Rank change year-on-year -9 +5 +18
Contract jobs citing Windows Server 79 144 195
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.88% 4.17% 3.84%
As % of the Operating Systems category 19.36% 22.15% 19.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 101 146
10th Percentile £168 £223 £166
25th Percentile £213 £313 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £425 £332
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +28.21% +9.59%
75th Percentile £500 £625 £425
90th Percentile £750 £700 £525
England median daily rate £460 £500 £438
% change year-on-year -8.00% +14.29% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 10
10th Percentile - £21.30 £16.25
25th Percentile - £23.24 £17.38
Median hourly rate - £26.48 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +32.40% -57.89%
75th Percentile - - £23.13
90th Percentile - - £25.13
England median hourly rate £38.50 £30.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +28.33% +33.33% -10.00%

All Operating Systems
Midlands

Windows Server is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 408 650 1,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.87% 18.84% 20.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 440 689
10th Percentile £148 £158 £140
25th Percentile £195 £250 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £475 £375
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +26.67% +4.17%
75th Percentile £541 £561 £495
90th Percentile £628 £688 £575
England median daily rate £463 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -10.11% +2.90% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 38 71
10th Percentile £12.86 £11.80 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.27 £14.64 £14.72
Median hourly rate £18.50 £17.61 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.05% +3.59% +6.72%
75th Percentile £23.75 £19.98 £22.13
90th Percentile - £30.61 £24.00
England median hourly rate £22.00 £35.06 £21.50
% change year-on-year -37.24% +63.05% +20.21%

Windows Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Windows Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Windows Server in the Midlands

Windows Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows Server in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Windows Server in the Midlands

Windows Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows Server in the Midlands over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows Server in the Midlands

Windows Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows Server in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Windows Server in the Midlands

Windows Server
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows Server within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands +11 54 £363 -23.68% 81
East Midlands -10 22 £325 - 37
Windows Server
England

Windows Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 29 (36.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (25.32%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.80%) IIS
4 2 (2.53%) WordPress
5 1 (1.27%) nginx
5 1 (1.27%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (7.59%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
1 1 (1.27%) RMDS
1 1 (1.27%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 55 (69.62%) Microsoft 365
2 34 (43.04%) Azure
3 13 (16.46%) Entra ID
3 13 (16.46%) OneDrive
4 8 (10.13%) Azure Monitor
5 6 (7.59%) Power Automate
5 6 (7.59%) Power Platform
5 6 (7.59%) PowerApps
6 3 (3.80%) AWS
6 3 (3.80%) IaaS
7 2 (2.53%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.53%) PaaS
7 2 (2.53%) SaaS
8 1 (1.27%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.27%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.27%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.27%) Azure Storage
8 1 (1.27%) Nutanix
8 1 (1.27%) Route 53
8 1 (1.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 32 (40.51%) DNS
2 20 (25.32%) DHCP
3 17 (21.52%) Firewall
4 12 (15.19%) TCP/IP
5 9 (11.39%) LAN
5 9 (11.39%) NetScaler
5 9 (11.39%) VPN
5 9 (11.39%) WAN
6 6 (7.59%) SAN
6 6 (7.59%) Unified Communications
7 4 (5.06%) VLAN
7 4 (5.06%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (3.80%) Ethernet
8 3 (3.80%) Fibre Channel
8 3 (3.80%) Remote Desktop
8 3 (3.80%) VoIP
8 3 (3.80%) Wireless
9 2 (2.53%) iSCSI
9 2 (2.53%) NAS
10 1 (1.27%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.86%) SQL Server
2 6 (7.59%) Power BI
3 2 (2.53%) MySQL
4 1 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 3 (3.80%) JIRA
2 1 (1.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 24 (30.38%) Social Skills
2 4 (5.06%) Finance
3 3 (3.80%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (3.80%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.53%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.27%) Advertising
5 1 (1.27%) Law
Job Titles
1 20 (25.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 15 (18.99%) Support Engineer
3 8 (10.13%) 2nd Line Support
4 6 (7.59%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 6 (7.59%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 6 (7.59%) Architect
4 6 (7.59%) Deployment Engineer
4 6 (7.59%) IT Engineer
4 6 (7.59%) IT Support
4 6 (7.59%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 6 (7.59%) Microsoft Engineer
4 6 (7.59%) Windows Engineer
5 5 (6.33%) 1st/2nd Line Support
5 5 (6.33%) Citrix Engineer
5 5 (6.33%) Citrix Specialist
5 5 (6.33%) Desktop Engineer
5 5 (6.33%) IT Support Engineer
5 5 (6.33%) Principal Engineer
6 4 (5.06%) Senior
6 4 (5.06%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.53%) LAMP
2 1 (1.27%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.27%) EDI
2 1 (1.27%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.39%) Driving Licence
2 7 (8.86%) PKI
3 6 (7.59%) Digital Signage
4 4 (5.06%) Clustering
4 4 (5.06%) Fat Client
4 4 (5.06%) Thin Client
5 2 (2.53%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.53%) Replication
5 2 (2.53%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.27%) CCTV
6 1 (1.27%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.27%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.27%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 79 (100.00%) Windows
2 21 (26.58%) Windows 10
3 16 (20.25%) Windows Server 2012
3 16 (20.25%) Windows Server 2019
4 13 (16.46%) Windows Server 2016
5 10 (12.66%) Linux
6 8 (10.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (6.33%) Apple iOS
7 5 (6.33%) Unix
8 4 (5.06%) Mac OS
8 4 (5.06%) Ubuntu
8 4 (5.06%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (3.80%) VMS
9 3 (3.80%) Windows 7
10 1 (1.27%) Android
10 1 (1.27%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (27.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (13.92%) Customer Service
3 9 (11.39%) Patch Management
4 8 (10.13%) Application Packaging
4 8 (10.13%) Change Management
4 8 (10.13%) ITIL
4 8 (10.13%) Migration
5 7 (8.86%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (7.59%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (7.59%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (7.59%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 6 (7.59%) Service Delivery
7 5 (6.33%) Information Management
7 5 (6.33%) Security Hardening
7 5 (6.33%) Security Monitoring
7 5 (6.33%) Server Patching
7 5 (6.33%) SIEM
7 5 (6.33%) Systems Engineering
7 5 (6.33%) Virtual Environments
7 5 (6.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 25 (31.65%) PowerShell
2 5 (6.33%) C#
2 5 (6.33%) Java
2 5 (6.33%) SQL
3 2 (2.53%) Python
4 1 (1.27%) Bash
4 1 (1.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (13.92%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.59%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.33%) DV Cleared
4 4 (5.06%) Azure Certification
4 4 (5.06%) Degree
5 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.27%) Citrix Certification
6 1 (1.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.33%) NIST
System Software
1 55 (69.62%) Active Directory
2 16 (20.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (16.46%) Hyper-V
4 12 (15.19%) VMware ESXi
5 11 (13.92%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (11.39%) XenApp
6 9 (11.39%) XenDesktop
7 8 (10.13%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 7 (8.86%) VMware NSX
9 4 (5.06%) vSphere
10 3 (3.80%) BitLocker
11 2 (2.53%) Terminal Services
11 2 (2.53%) Virtual Machines
12 1 (1.27%) Docker
12 1 (1.27%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 25 (31.65%) SCCM
2 17 (21.52%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (13.92%) vCenter Server
4 6 (7.59%) Autotask
4 6 (7.59%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (3.80%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (3.80%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (2.53%) Terraform
7 1 (1.27%) Kubernetes
7 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (1.27%) PaperCut
7 1 (1.27%) SCOM
7 1 (1.27%) VxRail
7 1 (1.27%) WSUS
Vendors
1 40 (50.63%) Microsoft
2 31 (39.24%) VMware
3 13 (16.46%) Citrix
4 8 (10.13%) NetApp
4 8 (10.13%) Veeam
5 6 (7.59%) Cisco
5 6 (7.59%) Oracle
6 4 (5.06%) Apple
7 3 (3.80%) Aruba
7 3 (3.80%) Datto
7 3 (3.80%) Remedy
8 2 (2.53%) Palo Alto
8 2 (2.53%) ProCurve
8 2 (2.53%) Red Hat
8 2 (2.53%) Synology
8 2 (2.53%) Zerto
9 1 (1.27%) Bloomberg
9 1 (1.27%) Google
9 1 (1.27%) Sage
9 1 (1.27%) WatchGuard